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December 9, 2015

MediaPost features Pat Higbie on Streaming Music Rivalry

MediaPost: Pat Higbie on Streaming Rivalry

Yesterday, Media Post ran an article interviewing XAPPmedia CEO Pat Higbie on the ongoing battle for consumers between music streaming services. His predictions? It’s all about the mobile in 2016.

December 8, 2015

Broadcast Radio Should Leverage Digital Options

Inside Radio Concludes Digital is “Premium Asset” for Broadcasters

Over the past couple of months, Inside Radio has published a number of articles related to digital channels and bringing broadcast radio to the Internet. Radio broadcasters have both experience and assets to leverage when competing for digital audio advertising spend.

November 19, 2015

Part 2: Spotify and Other Streaming Services are Saving the Music Industry

Music industry revenue has fallen consistently since peaking in 1999. Some would like to claim that streaming music services are a cause of the decline even though they arrived well after the downward trend was established. However, there is ample evidence to suggest the industry revenue would have declined in the absence of streaming music services.

November 16, 2015

How Long Before your First Ad on Internet Radio?

On Thursday, we published the Internet Radio Ad Load Report for Q3 2015. A metric we have collected since our first ad load report is Time To First Ad (TTFA). TTFA identifies how much content is delivered to a listener before they receive the first ad.

October 29, 2015

On-demand Audio and Future of Radio Time Shifting

Consumers are now conditioned to watch television and listen to audio on their own schedule. This has introduced the term known as "time shifting" and changed the way the industry thinks about ratings and audience.

October 15, 2015

RIAA Misleads While Advertising Delivers 54% of Internet Radio Revenue

Every few months a naïve journalist gets misled by a false narrative pushed by someone in the recording industry. Last winter it was the New York Times. More recently, Business Insider fell into a similar trap with its headline: “The music industry has made more money in 2015 from a century old technology than ad-supported streaming.”

October 1, 2015

iHeartMedia, Triton Digital and Slacker Radio Represented at the XAPPmedia AWXII Panel

Audio Had a Big Year at Advertising Week AWXII

If you attended Advertising Week this year you couldn’t avoid sessions devoted to millennials, mobile and … audio. Yes, it’s true. Audio is back and hip enough to get attention at the advertising industry’s largest gathering.

September 29, 2015

Inside Radio Coverage of XAPP Advertising Week Panel

Inside Radio ran an article today on the Advertising Week panel organized by XAPPmedia. The article concludes that while Internet radio has expanded quickly there is still more room for growth and that presents big opportunities for advertisers. Quotes from iHeartMedia, Triton Digital and XAPPmedia.

September 23, 2015

Robert Wilde of Slacker - XAPPmedia Advertising Week Panelist

Advertising Week Panelist Spotlight – Robert Wilde, Slacker

VP of Monetization for Slacker, Robert Wilde, is a panelist on next week’s Advertising Week session, "Internet Radio is Bigger than Facebook!? What it Means for Marketers." Below, Robert discusses how his career has taken him full circle from Musicmatch in 2000 to Slacker today and how he sees today’s large audiences on Internet radio as part of a long arc toward more personalization in audio delivery.